Quotes about Conviction

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.